The half-undressed woman in my hotel room was an unexpected surprise for me—and I assume it would have been to her too. Luckily, I didn’t just open the door and saunter in like the clerk told me to on the phone, and instead peered through the windows to see why the hell the lights were on in the room I had booked, and … hey, that’s not Dale Evans!

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The Coachella Valley has become a destination for music festival fans and golf aficionados, but beyond the well-manicured lawns lies a vast desert—a strange, wondrous place featuring mysterious roadside attractions and off-the-beaten-path eating experiences, with bizarre natural phenomena and people to match. Since Coachella is coming up, Daiana Feuer teamed up with Puma to help [...]

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Even in a jumpsuit with enough pockets for the apocalypse, no one is fully equipped for this weekend. People will lose flutes in teepees and see alligators in guitar-neck shadows chomping on the heads of musicians; and emerge from Pioneertown alleys on Sunday morning without pants.

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Finding the teepee involved receiving intentionally vague directions from two groups of kids, navigating a sudden neighborhood with way too many lawn ornaments, and sneaking into someone’s backyard via a labyrinthine system of wooden gates I opened by tugging on bits of fishing wire tied into little loops. Inside the teepee we found Matt as well as Ed Sharpe (“Has anyone seen my metal flute?!! Who took my magical flute?!”) and a pack of orgasmic chickies in face paint.

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Clean Air Clear Stars – 3rd Annual Global Cooling Benefit Music Festival – 3 Days 3 Stages 1 Festival. September 18th 19th and 20th, 2009. This year CACS is FREE TO ENTER! Once again this year we will be offering camping at the event. Camping vouchers will be available at the entry points of the [...]

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Back in 1973, Collie Ryan recorded three albumfuls of folk songs at once before retreating deep into the Texas desert. She’s squatted in an old bus along the Rio Grande ever since, spending her days painting mandalas on hubcaps. While she has no plans of dropping back into civilization, she will share her mystical observations about circles and sing us a song or two. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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